For the first time in about 10 years or more, I’ve painted some greenskins! After my wife put together a christmas ornament for our kitchen table, I figured it could use more goblins. You can never have enough goblins in your christmas ornaments… right?

I did the one to the left first, using urrr… Knarloc Green from GW’s Foundation range as a base coat. I mixed it with some light VMC grey of some sort and did the highlights and then washed the skin with Badab Black (GW again). Found it a bit cold and dark, so instead I went for Gretchin Skin (GW Foundation), Devlan Mud (GW wash, it’s bloody magic!) and then Gretchin Skin again. I think. Maybe something else in there too… I don’t know and I don’t really care. I’ll paint each gobbo as if it was my first, experimenting with different base coats, highlights and washes to get some variation in the skin tone. So far, the two to the right are my favourites.

So, three little Bob Olley goblins from Iron Claw (ie Citadel), released in 1988. Painted a bit like gnomes, ’cause that’s how I roll. Yeah… anyways, thought it would be fun to pit them against some of Bob Olley’s antropomorphic animals he did for Splintered Lights. A woodland rumble, part zany – part cute. If otters and hedgehogs fighting evil gnomes won’t get my Mrs into lead pushing, I’ll consider it a lost cause.

Here’s a final christmasy shot – if you’re reading this it means you’ve put up with sporadic updates over the year. Thanks for your patience! Thought there would be a little more time for painting as I’m on paternity leave but truth be told there’s a hefty load of house hold work to tend to during the wee lad’s nap time. I do have five zombies all but finished up though, they just need an evening or two of touching up the details and sorting out the bases. I hope to do that before the year ends. You know, to bring up the annual total a bit.

Now, if you want to see more of these pointy hat gits you need to give up some old lead! If you got any spares of this range (only pointy hat ones, mind) I’ll gladly purchase them, or trade. Happy christmas!